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Killing Hezbollah Leaders Failed 30 Years Ago. It Won’t Work Now
On Feb. 16, 1992, a decade into the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, Israel assassinated Abbas al-Musawi, Hezbollah’s co-founder and Secretary-General. At the time, Israeli media praised the army’s...
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How October 7 Transformed Israeli Society
After the criminal attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israelis walk around with an irreconcilable pain in their chests — for the people we lost, for the possible future that was foreclosed,...
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Why is Trump So Desperate!
A few days ago a Marist Poll came out which reported an important finding as far as the Presidential race. It said: “80% of registered voters nationally, including 86% of likely voters, say they know...
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Campuses Are Pulling Out All the Stops to Crush Palestine Solidarity This Fall
This semester at U.S. universities, campuses are being transformed from centers of struggle against the genocide in Gaza to epicenters of repression against student activism. University...
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Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’
Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US...
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135,900,000 Reasons Why the Working Class is so Angry
Since 1993, 60.2 million workers who had been on the job for at least three years have been laid off, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another 75.7 million with less than three years tenure...
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The Making of the Springfield Working Class
In September 1917, Ohio Governor James M. Cox—soon to be the Democratic nominee for president in 1920—marked Labor Day with a lengthy public address. After a few words praising the American Federation...
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Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
Norfolk, U.K. — I am sitting with Roger Hallam, his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitor’s room at HM Prison Wayland. On the walls are large photographs of families picnicking on lawns,...
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What Life Looked Like for Palestinians Before October 7
The daily lives of Palestinians have long been racked by occupation, apartheid, and systemic violence, culminating in the devastation currently unfolding in Gaza. Even before the escalation of events...
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View From Gaza: This War Has Broken Me in Ways I Didn’t Think Possible
Before October 7, 2023, I was Abdallah. Afterward, I’m still Abdallah, according to my ID, but I can’t recognize this new version of myself. Displaced by bombing from my home in eastern Rafah, a city...
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Vision for a More Sovereign Mexico ‘Will be a Fight’ with the US
Mexico has inaugurated Claudia Sheinbaum, its first woman president, following her landslide victory in June. Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, explains what to expect...
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The Agony and Ecstasy of an Empire: The United States in the Middle East
Over the past year, mindful that I have been blessed to live under Oregon’s tranquil skies, I reflect upon the Palestinians and Lebanese who begin and end their days under skies fraught with drones and...
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Ethics Experts Sound Alarm on North Dakota Governor Candidate’s Oil and Gas Ties
When Republican Kelly Armstrong filed his federal financial disclosure after being elected to Congress in 2018, he revealed his extensive ties to the oil and gas industry in his home state of North...
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Plans to Spy on Disabled People’s Bank Accounts Show Labour Isn’t For Change
The Labour government is barely 100 days into office and even its supporters have been reduced to half-hearted attempts at optimism. But this ‘it’s not all doom and gloom’ narrative rings hollow to...
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Donald Trump Will Enable Israel to Achieve Its Manifest Destiny and Restore...
Make no mistake about it. If Donald Trump becomes President he will allow Israel to practice genocidal warfare until every Palestinian leaves their homeland or be exterminated, even by exploding pagers...
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The Far Right, a Reactionary Backlash
I’ve been reading analyses of the far right for years, without finding one that really offered the key to understanding why these forces have so much support. That was until the last few months, when I...
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Movement Media Are Fighting for Palestinian Liberation and Against Censorship
A bill currently making its way through Congress could kill independent media outlets like ours. HR 9495 is a bipartisan piece of legislation, ostensibly about allowing U.S. nationals wrongfully...
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Republicans, Democrats and Online Free Speech
During the summer, the US Supreme Court issued multiple rulings that have generated a storm of hostility among progressives; for example, there were decisions relating to political corruption,...
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Hundreds of Local Malawians Quietly Leave World Bank Climate Project
Local participants working on a World Bank funded climate change adaptation project in Malawi say they have not been paid for up to a year, leading many to drop out. This has contributed to experts’...
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Political Change in Sri Lanka Rests on the Dynamics of the Next Few Months
Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the...
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